A doctor defends traditional Chinese medicine against pseudoscience claims, citing thousands of research papers and controlled studies. She shares her mother's recovery from multiple myeloma using Chinese herbal treatment and lifestyle changes.
I did a post about tcm, traditional Chinese medicine, and somebody commented on social media, said, I can't believe you're talking about Chinese medicine because it's pseudoscience. How can you, as a medical doctor, promote it? I said, you are speaking from ignorance. You don't know the thousands and thousands of research papers that have been done on all these therapies. Even clinical studies, controlled clinical studies showing the benefits. My own mother, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma when she was 43 years old. So I was 13. I thought I was going to lose my mom. And she lived in the hospital for six months. Six rounds of chemotherapy, and her veins were all blackened. She fainted multiple times during the chemotherapy. And then most of her roommates, they walked in, and then they were carried out on a stretcher, dead. So she decided, this is not working, so she left. Where did she go? She went to a Chinese medicine doctor. He looked at her and gave her a prescription of 20 different herbs and probably animal parts. And that's all she did. She drank this potion morning and night and then did some aerobics in the morning. That's it. One hour in the morning, went to the playground, did aerobic, aerobics, and then drank this horrible thing. Nothing else changed. And within six months, all her markers went back to normal. She went back to work and lived for another 32 beautiful years.
